Weekly AI Startup Funding: September 28 to October 4, 2025

Cerebras Systems closed an oversubscribed $1.1 billion Series G round just days after withdrawing its long-planned IPO filing. Vercel secured $300 million in oversubscription Series F funding to scale its AI Cloud platform. Elad Gilad Labs emerged from stealth with a $300million seed round to build “AI scientists and laboratories for materials discovery”